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The glasses that Nasa are using are similar to the ones you might wear at the cinema!

Normally the team use high-tech goggles to look at 3D photos of the terrain on Mars and use that information to decide where it's safe for the rover to go.

But the goggles don't work away from Nasa HQ - so they've started using old red-blue/green 3D glasses instead! And apparently they work nearly as well!

The glasses are a bit like the ones you'd wear in the cinema if you were going to see a film in 3D.

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This is a computer image of the Mars rover Curiosity

Nasa said: "Although not as immersive or comfortable as the goggles, they work just as well for planning drives and arm movements."

Curiosity science operations team chief Carrie Bridge said: "It's classic, textbook Nasa... We're presented with a problem and we figure out how to make things work. Mars isn't standing still for us - we're still exploring."